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""A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social."" -- -Leonard Barkan Princeton University ""Art Without an Author presents a revisionist view of the Lives, but one grounded firmly in contemporary artistic, literary, and social culture... It enriches our understanding of the production and significance of Vasari's Lives."" -Renaissance Quarterly ""Ruffini lays the groundwork for better understanding the background for confusion behind claims to authorship in our own Post-Enlightenment age. He also makes it possible for us to accommodate into the humanities the sort of corporate authorship and publishing collaborations that were common in the sixteenth century, but are only practiced routinely today in the sciences. He does this through an elegant, scholarly, and even gripping discussion of the academic project of producing Vasari's Lives, and the functions that Michelangelo's art and persona have performed in art and literary history."" -- -Evelyn Lincoln Brown University ""... A readable, succinct account of current thinking about Vasari's place in the transition to an academic culture of art criticism... Recommended."" -Choice

A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social.-Leonard Barkan Ruffini lays the groundwork for better understanding the background for confusion behind claims to authorship in our own Post-Enlightenment age. He also makes it possible for us to accommodate into the humanities the sort of corporate authorship and publishing collaborations that were common in the sixteenth century, but are only practiced routinely today in the sciences. yHe does this through an elegant, scholarly, and even gripping discussion of the academic project of producing Vasari's Lives, and the functions that Michelangelo's art and persona have performed in art and literary history.-Evelyn Lincoln ... A readable, succinct account of current thinking about Vasari's place in the transition to an academic culture of art criticism... Recommended.-Choice Art Without an Author presents a revisionist view of the Lives, but one grounded firmly in contemporary artistic, literary, and social culture... It enriches our understanding of the production and significance of Vasari's Lives.-Renaissance Quarterly

A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social. GCoLeonard Barkan, Princeton University A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social.-Leonard Barkan Ruffini lays the groundwork for better understanding the background for confusion behind claims to authorship in our own Post-Enlightenment age. He also makes it possible for us to accommodate into the humanities the sort of corporate authorship and publishing collaborations that were common in the sixteenth century, but are only practiced routinely today in the sciences. yHe does this through an elegant, scholarly, and even gripping discussion of the academic project of producing Vasari's Lives, and the functions that Michelangelo's art and persona have performed in art and literary history.-Evelyn Lincoln ... A readable, succinct account of current thinking about Vasari's place in the transition to an academic culture of art criticism... Recommended.-Choice Art Without an Author presents a revisionist view of the Lives, but one grounded firmly in contemporary artistic, literary, and social culture... It enriches our understanding of the production and significance of Vasari's Lives.-Renaissance Quarterly

<br>A concise and highly readable volume that considers an enormously important constellation of matters within Italian culture of the late Renaissance, touching on a broad range of matters artistic, literary, and social.-Leonard Barkan<p><br>Ruffini lays the groundwork for better understanding the background for confusion behind claims to authorship in our own Post-Enlightenment age. He also makes it possible for us to accommodate into the humanities the sort of corporate authorship and publishing collaborations that were common in the sixteenth century, but are only practiced routinely today in the sciences. He does this through an elegant, scholarly, and even gripping discussion of the academic project of producing Vasari's Lives, and the functions that Michelangelo's art and persona have performed in art and literary history.-Evelyn Lincoln<p><br>

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Marco Ruffini is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Art History at Northwestern University.

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